English literature – Materfamilias Writes

fsprout 3 August 2008

Bleak House

I’ve just finished Charles Dickens’ Bleak House, and I’ve enjoyed it so much. Except for reading Hard Times about ten years ago as a Teaching Assistant, I hadn’t read Dickens for decades, until I decided…

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Wisdom to live by and Other Clever Quotations

Events are not changeable at their climax, not through virtue and resolve, but only in their strictly ordinary, habitual course through reason and practice.

Walter Benjamin, “The Author as Producer,” Address delivered at the Institute for the Study of Fascism, Paris, on 27 April 1934

Coherence is born of random abundance.

Kim Stafford in The Muses Among Us

The world is so full of a number of things
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses

Bourgeois heroism: the acrobatics of being in so many places practically at once, and doing so many amazing things in one day, and then conversing over dinner with unflagging energy.

Eva Hoffman, Appassionata

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